Monday, February 5, 2018

Hello everyone! I am back today with a fabulous resource you can use with your bilingual students or even your own kiddos. Have you heard of Linguacious? Linguacious is a company that provides language learning products in Hebrew, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, English/ESL, Russian. I have been trying out a few of their products and am here with an in depth review AND a giveaway.

Linguacious focuses on both the expressive and receptive language domains and their materials target all language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Keep reading to see how I've used them.

~Flashcards~

We all use flashcards with our students, well, wait until you try these! The Linguacious flashcards have:

1) vibrant, real life photos

2) easy to read text

3) a QR code that you can scan to listen to the correct pronunciation from a native speaker

The flashcards include suggested games you can try at home or at school. It is a great way to practice and truly internalize a new language. I have used them with my 2nd graders in a word study center where they scan the QR code, listen to the word, then they'll try to use it in a sentence. I've also used these with my 18 month old baby girl. Of course, she's not speaking in sentences, yet! With her, I'll point to the picture, say the word, then scan it with the phone QR reader (she LOVES to listen to the word pronunciation).

~Posters~

The posters are a quick way to have the same words as the flashcards. I have these displayed around the classroom and they are easy to scan whenever you want students to practice their words. There are 3 posters which include: a side of things around the home and a side of animals.

Giveaway & Coupon Code

Linguacious and I have teamed up to bring you a 10% discount using MMBILI10 on your Amazon purchase. Take advantage before it expires on February 12th! Furthermore, we will be giving away a poster set to one lucky follower. All you have to do is follow the rafflecopter instructions below. Good luck and until next time, friends!

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Welcome back to my blog friends! I have been busy, swamped with all the things:
*life
*teaching
*my baby girl (now 18 months old)
*obtaining my principal certification
*where has time gone!!??!

I am hoping to start balancing it all a little better and bring you high quality ideas you can utilize in your bilingual classroom. I have so many projects in the works and hope to soon be able to share all the content I have planned. This February also marks my 4th year as a TpT seller!! Wooo what a fantastic ride this has been.

A couple of things in the works:

1) #duallanguagespanishfun will be on instagram. Follow me @mmbilingual where a group of educators and I will be sharing posts from our classrooms and resources!

2) Come back next week for a giveaway and discount code on a fantastic learning resource you can use at home or in the classroom!

So friends, make sure you are following me on social media to find out about what's new here at M&M Bilingual!